Euridice
by Jacopo Peri Florence, Boboli Gardens, June 28th 1960
settings by: Franco Zeffirelli
directed by: Franco Zeffirelli
OPERA
The production was revived in Florence, at the Boboli Gardens, on 25 June 1965, with the same cast except for a few substitutions in secondary roles.
Zeffirelli returned to Florence, and specifically to Boboli, 11 years after the spectacular Troilus and Cressida, when the XXIII Maggio Musicale Fiorentino asked him to stage the first 20th-century scenic revival of Euridice.
A melodrama by Ottavio Rinuccini, set to music by Jacopo Peri, Euridice was first performed in 1600 just in Florence, and is the oldest surviving opera to have reached modern times.
Alongside set designer and director Zeffirelli, also Piero Tosi returned to Florence for the occasion—not as an anonymous volunteer assistant, but as a celebrated costume designer.
By February 1960, Tosi had already won the first of the eight Silver Ribbons Awards he would earn over the years for his costume designs.
Euridice. From the playbill
Euridice: From the playbill |
 Euridice: From the playbill |
 Euridice: From the playbill |
Zeffirelli in the Boboli Gardens together with Piero Caliterna
Production manager at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
The set under construction in the Boboli Gardens
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The finished set, during the performance
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Euridice. Stills from the production
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